We would like to invite you and your colleagues to the first SPE London Business Development event of 2018.
This evening event will focus on different aspects of Mergers & Acquisitions in upstream oil and gas:
- Raising Capital
- Choosing an M&A target
- Identifying value in M&A deals
- Effect of market conditions on M&A
- Trends and Outlook
- Case Studies/Examples
“SPE2018 10 Discount Code for SPE Members
Speakers
Emma Wild Partner and Head of Upstream Oil & Gas, KPMG UK
Emma leads KPMGs Upstream Practice in the UK, with over 20 years of international experience within the oil and gas sector, as well as financial services. Prior to KPMG, she gained industry experience through various senior technical and commercial roles at Santos, RISC ltd, and Bank of Scotland. Emma graduated from the University of Adelaide with an honours degree in Chemical Engineering and has lived and worked in the U.K, Australia, and the U.S.A. She is passionate about gender diversity and draws upon her personal experiences to support the development of future female leaders in the sector. She is also an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and sits on the technical committee for the Hydrocarbon Economic Evaluation Symposium held in Houston every 2 years.
Tom Woolgar MD & Head of Energy Corporate Banking, EMEA, BMO Capital Markets
Tom is Managing Director and Head of Energy Corporate Banking, EMEA at BMO Capital Markets in London, where he is responsible for originating and managing a portfolio of corporate banking clients across the Oil & Gas industry. He principally covers Upstream E&P companies in EMEA, providing corporate, reserve based lending and acquisition financing products, but also covers a wide range of other companies across the Energy sector helpings his clients to access BMO Capital Markets other key product offerings including M&A, DCM, ECM, derivatives and trade finance.
He joined BMO in 2016 to build its upstream lending business in Europe and is playing a key role in developing BMO Capital Markets into a leading O&G bank in the region. Tom previously worked in similar O&G coverage roles at Scotiabank, Lloyds Bank, and Bank of Scotland. He holds an MBA from the University of Durham Business School and a BSc in Communications from the University of Leicester.
Bassem Zaki Group Head of Business Development, Premier Oil
Bassem heads the business development team at Premier Oil. He joined the oil industry as a research analyst with an oilfield services company in Cairo, Egypt. He then moved into Liquefied Natural Gas where he had various roles in the teams responsible for commercialising, project-financing and insuring the two LNG trains at EgyptianLNG. Bassem then took up several upstream commercial and business development appointments with BG Group and Hess in Cairo and London. He holds a BSc in mechanical engineering from the American University in Cairo and an MSc in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Premier Oil in 2014.
Location: Brooks Room, KPMG, 20 Grosvenor St, Mayfair, London W1K 4QJ.
Tickets: 25 for non-SPE members & 15 for SPE members (with SPE2018 discount code) + Booking fees.
Places are limited to 55 due to capacity constraints. A waitlist will be in operation if registrations exceed venue capacity: please register interest on Eventbrite.